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Carter's warm reception before Congress contrasted with earlier reactions to the summit results. The Palestine Liberation Organiza and Libya denounced the Camp David agreements, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed I. Kamel resigned protest Egyptian concessions...
...seemed to satisfy some religious leaders. "We have no intention of implementing the traditional Islamic criminal codes such as cutting off thieves' hands or stoning adulterers to death," said one moderate leader, Ayatullah Sharietmadari. "We don't want to turn Iran into another Saudi Arabia or another Libya. But we shall demand strict adherence to the Islamic precepts of our country's constitution." Many members of the Western-educated elite were predictably appalled at the latest turn of events. "The Shah's concessions will only make the opposition demand more," complained one Iranian businessman. "Mark...
Khomeini's ominous silence was further evidence of a developing split between the exile and more moderate Shi'ites within Iran. Khomeini is not only supported by radical Iraq and Libya but also is suspected by Western intelligence sources of receiving encouragement from the Soviet Union as well. Muslim leaders object not only to Khomeini's flirtation with the left but to the fact that his adherents in Iran use gangland tactics to frighten moderates...
...Libya on July 19, 1977, thereby setting off the brief border war in which a training camp at Oasis Giarabub near the Egyptian border was destroyed...
Although the Rabin-Fahd meeting was aborted, the Premier's mission to Morocco led directly to a series of sessions between top-level Egyptian and Israeli intelligence officials in Rabat. By the time the Israelis learned, through intelligence sources in Libya, of the radical Arab plotting against Sadat and the other moderate Arab leaders, Menachem Begin had become Israel's Premier. Begin ordered Israeli Intelligence Chief Yitzhak Hoffi to fly to Morocco to deliver the information directly to his Egyptian counterpart, General Mohammed Shoukat...